Jax vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Jax
based on 7,819 Jax vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jax vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Jax vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Jax
Tips for Playing as Jax against Riven
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Jax vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Jax in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Jax versus Riven counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Jax typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jax and Riven
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Who is Better, Jax or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jax usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Riven, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Jax makes an ok counter to Riven.
While Jax does have a higher win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Jax also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Jax into Riven.
Additionally, Jax also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jax vs Riven matchups, Jax is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Jax is a decent counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jax against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jax to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Jax versus Riven build consist of Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Trinity Force. When Jax bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 50.7% battling Riven with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Riven as Jax, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Jax vs Riven counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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